>What I really want to know is why it bothers you. If someone were to proclaim that 2+2 is equal to 6, we'd all shrug it off and dismiss it as nonsense. If they were to say only those who believe 2+2=6 will spend eterninty in Heaven, we'd still shrug it off and dismiss them. Even if they said they forgave us for not believing 2+2=6, we'd dismiss it. Why is the Christian belief any different?

Because they own the place. I want to know whether there's a chance that I may be arrested or fined for saying that 2+2=-1 or that 2+2 doesn't compute at all. Should I just shut up and be happy if they send two guys in leather coats to visit me at 2AM and ask whether comrade Ivan Ivanovich, the tailor, lives here, happy because he lives next door to which I can point them.

>If you think they're wrong - so what if they think you're wrong?

Because they own the place. Their wrong trumps my wrong.

>Again, I really don't want to start anything - just trying to understand what it is about this that upsets people so much...

Because they own the place. It's a slightly different kind of upset; if I forget to Set Rant On at the beginning of the message it may upset maybe two or three people for about 200Kjf (kilojiffies, ~177.4 nautical :). If one nun decides to embrace others and forgive them for being what they are and who they are, that's just one person's holier-than-thou attitude, could call it a professional malady. Now if one author of a text finds that sort of attitude a positive trait that needs to be lauded, and this praise makes it through several layers of editorial scrutiny and ends up on a public radio without raising a single eyebrow along its path... now that's downright scary. If tolerance is what they stand for, I do feel tolerated.